For many LGBTQ people, books are the first place where we see pieces of ourselves and our identities come alive, making books critical to the process of identity formation. This fall Pop-Up Founding Director Hugh Ryan and award winning queer author Sassafras Lowrey are co-curating an exhibit at the New York Public Library Jefferson Market Branch sponsored by the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History and Lambda Literary Foundation highlighting the unique relationship between LGBTQ people and literature. Books can be lifelines for LGBTQ people isolated by geographic area or other life circumstances, and we seek to break down the divide between the author and reader, to create conversation through art exploring the role of the queer book within our community.

These dioramas will be displayed at the New York Public Library’s Jefferson Market Branch in August / September 2014.

Here is more information about the three events that will be happening in August and September while the Dioramas are up on display:

Join celebrated author Jack Halberstam and artist Jenny Lin in a conversation about queer art, queer literature and the relationship between author and reader/artist. Jack Halberstam’s “Female Masculinity” was the subject/inspiration for Jenny Lin’s diorama in the Queer Book Diorama Show. Moderated by curators Hugh Ryan and Sassafras Lowrey.